Zohair Youssif Akache

Zohair Youssif Akache (1954-18 October 1977), also called Captain Martyr Mahmud, was a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member who was one of the hijackers of Lufthansa Flight 181.

Biography
Zohair Youssif Akache was born in 1954 in Palestine, and he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Marxist-Leninist terrorist group. On 13 October 1977, Akache, Suhaila Sayeh, Wabil Harb, and Hind Alameh hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 on its Rome-Athens flight, and it made several stopovers before landing in Mogadishu, Somalia. West Germany's GSG-9 special forces launched an assault on the hijacked plane, and he was mortally wounded during the firefight with the counter-terrorists. He died of his injuries hours later, and Sayeh would be the only survivor in the group.